We have sun for the first time in a couple of weeks. My Truelove pointed out to me that my grand scheme for the cinnamon rose by the front door is finally being realized. Picture if you will a pink cinnamon rose, blooming once in the spring. Branching throughout are the intense blue blossoms of a tall cranesbill, and a pale pink clematis with dusky rose petal stripes is finally making its way up through the rosebush. It's lovely!

We've had so much rain (with other parts of the country in drought) that we've been worried about the nesting songbirds. Yesterday we found a soaking wet little grass nest with 2 tiny speckled eggs hidden under a brush pile. It had been ruined by rain and abandoned; the nestlings never had a chance to develop.

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